Builders of the Hoosac Tunnel : Baldwin, Crocker, Haupt, Doane, Shanly /

Builders of the Hoosac Tunnel : Baldwin, Crocker, Haupt, Doane, Shanly /

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Author / Creator:	Schexnayder, Cliff J., author.
Edition:	First edition
Imprint:	Portsmouth, New Hampshire : Peter E. Randall Publisher, ©2015. Lebanon, New Hampshire : distributed by the University Press of New England, Dartmouth College
Description:	xvi, 645 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Baldwin, Loammi, -- 1745-1807. Crocker, Alvah, -- 1801-1874. Haupt, Herman, -- 1817-1905. Shanly, Walter, -- 1817-1899. Baldwin, Loammi, -- 1745-1807. Crocker, Alvah, -- 1801-1874. Haupt, Herman, -- 1817-1905. Shanly, Walter, -- 1817-1899. Railroad tunnels. Railroad tunnels -- Design and construction. Railroad tunnels -- Massachusetts. Railroad tunnels -- Design and construction -- 19th century. Hoosac Tunnel (Mass.) -- History. Massachusetts. Massachusetts -- Hoosac Tunnel. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10782603

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ISBN:	9781942155072 1942155077
Notes:	Includes bibliographic references and index.
Summary:	[This book] traces the interactions between those who worked to build the Hoosac Tunnel of Massachusetts and those who struggled mightily to hinder its construction. The driving force behind the Tunnel and a thread through the book is Alvah Crocker, paper magistrate from Fitchburg. The first to broach the idea of tunneling the Mountain is the father of American Civil Engineering, Loammi Baldwin Jr., son of the Revolutionary War hero and builder of the Middlesex Canal, Loammi Sr. There is a parade of builders: Herman Haupt, who during the Civil War earned a reputation as Lincoln's railroad man, engineers Thomas Doane and John Brooks, who pushed China merchant turned railroad man John M. Forbes' railroads into Iowa before the Civil War, and finally the Shanly brothers from Canada who achieved daylight through the Mountain. --Publisher.

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